Continuing my recent run of videos by 2014 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees, this week's Retro Video of the Week is Peter Gabriel's 1986 smash "Sledgehammer." The song hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in July 1986, coincidentally (but not ironically) displacing "Invisible Touch" by Gabriel's former band mates in Genesis. The video is one of the most iconic videos ever made, with it's overt innuendo and revolutionary stop-motion animation. It ended up winning nine MTV Music Video Awards in 1987 (still a record) and going on to be MTV's most-played video of all-time. Interesting tidbit: the famous horn riff in the song is played by none other than the Memphis Horns, the legendary house horn section for '60s soul stalwart Stax Records.
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